On the pacman backend, an installed AUR helper (paru, else yay;
--aur-helper=paru|yay|none, --no-aur) adds the AUR updates to the review
list. The helper never runs as root: when the tool is root through sudo it
runs as SUDO_USER (runuser -u, else sudo -u, with that user's HOME, from
that home); unprivileged it runs as is; a root login gets no AUR, with a
warning. The banner names the helper ("+ AUR via paru").
- listing: <helper> -Qua (also with --no-refresh), rows with repository
"aur"; [ignored] is shown [held]; a failing -Qua warns and the session
goes on with the repository rows
- every row has a marker column after the number: "*" for AUR rows, a
space otherwise (on every backend)
- N?? merges pacman -Qi with <helper> -Sia; N?, N+, Nx stay with pacman;
N- excludes through the helper's --ignore
- <enter>: the repository step exactly as before, then <helper> -Sua
--ignore <excluded> as the invoking user (--noconfirm only when stdin is
not a terminal); pacman is skipped when only AUR rows are left; a helper
failure is reported and its status returned; --dry-run prints it
- other backends never run a helper; --aur-helper is ignored with a warning
paru 2.1.0 and yay 13.0.1 formats verified in discovery/pacman.md section
15 (proof: discovery/pacman/aur.sh). Unit tests replay the recorded output
(fake paru, yay, runuser, getent); the archlinux E2E run installs the
foreign su-dummy-aur and drives a fake paru through a fake sudo built on
passwordless su for wheel.
N? and `info PKG` now print three lines, none indented:
PKG: <description>
reason: explicitly installed | installed as a dependency | unknown | not installed
required by: <installed dependents, comma separated> | nothing
The reason comes from a new <be>_reason backend function: apt-mark
showauto / showmanual (dpkg decides for a package in neither list), the
Install Reason of pacman -Qi, dnf repoquery --installed %{reason} (dnf4
and dnf5 words) and the Installed line of zypper info (rpm plus libzypp's
AutoInstalled when zypper is locked). A row whose old version is "-" is
not installed and the backend is not asked. The "(installed)" qualifier
moves to --help, README and DESIGN.
The rpm E2E fixture and e2e_reset now also mark su-dummy-a and su-dummy-c
as user-installed on dnf, which records plain rpm installs as "unknown",
so 1? and 2? show both reasons on all 12 distros. The verified commands
are recorded in discovery/{apt,pacman,rpm}.md.
bryanpedini